Top-notch student from Kenya finally finds a home at TCC

11:39 PM,
Jun. 30, 2013

TCC student Cephus Kaburu, is an international student from Kenya.

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Cephas Kaburu earned straight-A's at his high school in Meru, Kenya, about two hours from the capital city Nairobi. He took to computer technology like a fish to water, and found part-time work assisting others.

He desperately wanted to go to college in the United States, but paying for it seemed impossible. His parents were unemployed farmers who needed to provide for Cephas' twin younger sisters.

Kaburu's fortunes changed in a heartbeat when a businessman in his town agreed to sponsor Kaburu, who was admitted to Tallahassee Community College and had an uncle living nearby to offer him a ...